Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

Hideaki Kuzuoka, University of Tsukuba

Vanessa Evers, University of Twente

 

Program Co-Chairs

Michita Imai, Keio University

Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs

Fumihide Tanaka, University of Tsukuba

Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University

 

Finance Co-Chairs

Masahiro Shiomi, ATR

Leila Takayama, Willow Garage

 

Workshop and Tutorials Co-Chairs

Astrid Weiss, University of Salzburg

David-Feil Seifer, Yale University

 

Late-breaking Reports Co-Chairs

Andreas Kolling,Carnegie Mellon University

Cindy Bethel, Mississippi State University

 

Video Session Co-Chairs

Wendy Ju, California College of the Arts

Tony Belpaeme, University of Plymouth

 

Panels Chair

Peter Kahn, University of Washington

 

Publications Co-Chairs

Jacob Crandall, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology

Selma Sabanovic, Indiana University

 

Fundraising & Exhibitions Co-Chairs

Jennifer Burke, The Boeing Company

Daisuke Sakamoto, The University of Tokyo

 

Design Chair

Sonya S. Kwak, Ewha Womans University

 

Web Chair

Komei Sugiura, NICT

 

Publicity Co-Chairs

Aude Billard, EPFL

Dong-Soo Kwon, KAIST

 

Registration Co-Chairs

Joshua M. Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Satoru Satake, ATR

 

Demo Co-Chairs

Kazunori Terada, Gifu University

Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University

 

HRI Steering Committee

Co-chairs

• Julie A. Adams, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Takayuki Kanda, ATR, Japan
• Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, The Netherlands (Co-Chair elect)

 

Members (in alphabetical order)

• Tony Belpaeme, University of Plymouth, UK
• Sylvain Calinon, EPFL, Switzerland
• Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Jeonghye Han, Cheongju National University of Education, Korea
• Michita Imai, Keio University, Japan
• Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Brown University, USA
• Hideaki Kazuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Sara Kiesler, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Franz Kummert, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Dong-Soo Kwon, KAIST, South Korea
• Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
• Gerhard Sagerer, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Brian Scassellatti, Yale University, USA
• Masahiro Shiomi, ATR, Japan
• Aaron Steinfeld, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Leila Takayama, Willow Garage, Inc., USA
• Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts–Lowell, USA

 

Past Chairs

• Michael A. Goodrich, Brigham Young University, USA

 

Program Committee

• Kai Oliver Arras,     Freiburg University, Germany
• Tony Belpaeme,    University of Plymouth, UK
• Elizabeth Croft,     University of British Columbia, Canada
• Terry Fong,    NASA Ames, USA
• Mike Goodrich,    Brigham Young University, USA
• Odest Chadwicke Jenkins,    Brown University, USA
• Peter Kahn,    University of Washington, USA
• Takayuki Kanda,    ATR,Japan
• Bilge Mutlu,    University of Wisconsin, USA
• Yukie Nagai,    Osaka University,Japan
• Tatsuya  Nomura,     Ryukoku University,  Japan
• Paul Rybski,     Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Gerhard Sagerer,     Bielefeld University, Germany
• Brian Scassellatti,    Yale University, USA
• Candace Sidner,    Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Sidd Srinivasa,     Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Aaron Steinfeld,    Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Leila Takayama,    Willow Garage, USA
• Fumihide Tanaka,     Tsukuba University, Japan
• Adriana Tapus,    ENSTA-ParisTech, France
• Andrea Tomasz,    Georgia Tech, USA
• Greg Trafton,    Naval Research Laboratory, USA
• Holly Yanco,    University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA